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20. Trump whined that the Secret Service made it harder for him to cheat at golf: report
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:43 PM
Jul 2025

This made me smile

Wasting taxpayer money to golf and hold the grand opening for one of his courses! Why should we have to pay M just for him to play a game of golf??
#TheWasteFraudAndAbuseIsHIM

Trump whined that the Secret Service made it harder for him to cheat at golf: report

www.rawstory.com/trump-golf-2...

Diane Strickland 🦋 (@autisticannie.bsky.social) 2025-07-28T17:32:27.927Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-golf-2673773236/

Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey worked with co-authors Isaac Arnsdorf and Tyler Pager to gather information about President Donald Trump from his 2024 campaign for their book. Among the things they found was an admission from Trump that the Secret Service makes it more difficult for him to cheat a golf.

Over the weekend, videos captured Trump's two caddies walking ahead of Trump's golf cart before one caddy appears to drop a ball on the course. Trump then hops out of the golf cart and walks to the ball as if it were there the whole time. The person Trump appeared to be playing with was following in his cart and walked over to the ball with Trump.

According to Dawsey, the team captured audio of Trump complaining that the Secret Service is in the trees and bushes all over his golf course as security — and measure shown to be necessary when a man was accused of shooting at Trump through a fence in Sept. 2024 while he was playing at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

According to Trump, the agents being in the trees at his courses "made it harder to move the ball when he had a bad lie," wrote Dawsy on X.

“I hit a ball down the fairway, it's in a little rough, and there's a guy standing behind a tree, 'Good morning, sir.' And I got a ball with a horrible lie. I'd go like this. Nobody would know the difference. I can't because, he said, they're all looking down at me horrible. It's a horrible situation to be in," Trump said of his security during his games.

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Cheating at golf in Scotland [View all] struggle4progress Jul 2025 OP
The Scottish member of Parliament said "Sometimes, what a bully needs, is to be stood up to". Amen, brother, amen. FadedMullet Jul 2025 #1
how much did he pay the caddie? pansypoo53219 Jul 2025 #2
most likely 0. AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #9
I'm wondering if the caddies are Scottish? FakeNoose Jul 2025 #10
I think that caddie was his diaper boy Kashyap Pramod Patel Blue Owl Jul 2025 #15
Some people are saying it was a legal "drop," to take relief from a hazard (an unplayable lie). sop Jul 2025 #3
Caddies can't drop for the player. Kingofalldems Jul 2025 #4
You can clearly see him sneakily flipping the ball backwards as he walks past the spot. sop Jul 2025 #6
I bet he had to sign an NDA. Kingofalldems Jul 2025 #8
No matter what the argument, young_at_heart Jul 2025 #5
He probably thought "Goldfinger" was an instructional film. Harker Jul 2025 #7
And this is the asshole 77 million racist scum trust with nuclear bombs Submariner Jul 2025 #11
I'm certain that Trump took the mandated one stroke penalty for that drop. Gimpyknee Jul 2025 #12
Krasnov cheats at everything, marriage, taxes, contracts, treaties etc. MLWR Jul 2025 #13
This fucker is such a colossal LOSER who in their right mind supports him? Blue Owl Jul 2025 #14
trump cheats at everything LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2025 #16
"When you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything." Heidi Jul 2025 #17
It really seems like doing this should trigger an ancestral curse of some kind 0rganism Jul 2025 #18
Damn low, even for a repube BoRaGard Jul 2025 #19
Trump whined that the Secret Service made it harder for him to cheat at golf: report LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2025 #20
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